"I thought I won," said an exhausted Maurer. "I controlled (the fight) standing up and on the ground."

Maurer's trainer Jeff Wiley was more blunt.

"It's (freaking) ridiculous," he barked.

"It's totally unfair."

But it was a different tune in Harker's corner.

"It's a very fair decision," said the 205-pounder scrapper. "I think we both fought hard."

Before the fight there was talk the Regina Police Service would stop the card because of questions surrounding whether the program was properly sanctioned. Instead, police officers were just innocent bystanders amongst a sold-out crowd of 1,400 people.